---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 C.F.R. § 27.220"
title: "6"
number: "27.220"
heading: "Tiering."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/6/27.220"
---

# §27.220. Tiering.

- (a) **Preliminary determination of risk-based tiering.** Based on the information the Department receives in accordance with §§ [27.200](/cfr/6/27.200.md) and [27.205](/cfr/6/27.205.md) (including information submitted through the Top-Screen process) and following its initial determination in [§ 27.205(a)](/cfr/6/27.205.md?p=a) that a facility presents a high level of security risk, the Department shall notify a facility of the Department's preliminary determination of the facility's placement in a risk-based tier.
- (b) **Confirmation or alteration of risk-based tiering.** Following review of a covered facility's Security Vulnerability Assessment, the Executive Assistant Director shall notify the covered facility of its final placement within a risk-based tier, or for covered facilities previously notified of a preliminary tiering, confirm or alter such tiering.
- (c) The Department shall place covered facilities in one of four risk-based tiers, ranging from highest risk facilities in Tier 1 to lowest risk facilities in Tier 4.
- (d) The Executive Assistant Director may provide the facility with guidance regarding the risk-based performance standards and any other necessary guidance materials applicable to its assigned tier.

## Notes

### Amendments

[72 FR 17729, Apr. 9, 2007, as amended at 86 FR 41892, Aug. 4, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 624; Pub. L. 101-410, 104 Stat. 890, as amended by Pub. L. 114-74, 129 Stat. 599; Pub. L. 113-254, 128 Stat. 2898, as amended by Pub. L. 116-150, 134 Stat. 679.

### Source

Source: 72 FR 17729, Apr. 9, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[72 FR 17729, Apr. 9, 2007, as amended at 86 FR 41892, Aug. 4, 2021]